PhD research
Find out more about our current PhD students' research topics and read their research blog posts.
Linda-Jane Buckle
Postgraduate Research Student
Linda-Jane.Buckle@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"Diplomatic communication between Iran, UK and US since 1979."
Peter Buckles
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"The French Wars and their impact on Merchant Trade Networks in Bristol, Bordeaux and New York, 1783-1830."
Emma Copestake
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Laughing through the Pain? Occupational Wellbeing on the Waterfront in Liverpool c.1964-1998."
Heather Cowan
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Bodies of (Dis)Order: Definitions of Abortion in Early Modern England."
Catherine Crossley
Postgraduate Research Student
Catherine.Crossley@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"Monstrous men in the medieval mind: intertextuality and interpretation, c.1200-1350."
James Duncan
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"The Construction of Christian Identity in Late Antique North Africa, 350-533"
Chloé Duteil
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
“The Celtic Edge: Amphibious Environments and Senses of Self on the Breton and Welsh Coasts, 1870s-1930s”
Michelle Girvan
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
“Charity, Piety and Commerce: The Liverpool Blue Coat School and Pragmatic Politeness, 1708–1796."
Emily Gibbs
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Uncovering, understanding, and disassembling British Nuclear Anxiety, 1952-1989 and beyond."
David Grealy
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Human Rights and British Diplomacy, 1977-1994: Intellectual Biography of David Owen."
Patricia Harrison
Postgraduate Research Student
hspharri@student.liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"Suicide in English Prisons 1865-1895."
Ashleigh Hawkins
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Accounts with Interest: Opening Up the Archives of Barclays Bank."
Synthia Hynes
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"The English Ambassadress in a Cosmopolitan World: Women, Diplomacy and Politics in the Long 18th Century"
Ian Jones
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Using the past: Authenticity, reliability, and the role of archives in Barclays plc’s use of the past strategies"
Silence Masiya
Postgraduate Research Student
Silence.Masiya@liverpool.co.uk
Thesis Title:
"Zimbabwe's Conflict Watersheds: Challenges for Peacebuilding"
Kerrie McGiveron
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"What is a Big Flame Group? Uncovering a radical, internationalist socialist-feminist organisation, 1970-1984."
Emily McIndoe
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"A Cold War Conundrum: British Aid to El Salvador, 1970 – 2009"
Thomas Morrissey
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"The West Country Gentry and the English Reformation c.1530-c.1580."
Daniel Payne
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Liverpool: The anatomy of Social and Political change 1918-1939."
Danica Ramsey-Brimberg
Postgraduate Research Student
D.Ramsey-Brimberg@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"The Powers That Be: Viking and Ecclesiastical Interactions in the Irish Sea Area from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries”
Harry Roberts
Postgraduate Research Student
h.roberts4@student.liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"British Nuclear Culture in the Rural Periphery: 1945-1991”
Sophie Rooney
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Expectations and Experiences of Cancer in Liverpool since 1948"
Amy Solomons
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Books for Everyone? National Trust Libraries and their Reading Communities in the Long Eighteenth Century"
Richard Smith
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Opposing Pinochat: The causes and concequences of protest in Santiago de Chile in the 1980s"
Frank Thorpe
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Changing attitudes to smell in twentieth-century British personal hygiene"
Catherine Tully
Postgraduate Research Student
Catherine.Tully@liverpool.ac.uk
Thesis Title:
"Bare lives/ abject deaths: abolitionism, affect, and the execution of women in Britain 1868-1968."
Justice Ujoumunna
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"Digital Evidence in the Nigerian Legal System: Admissibility and Evidential Weight of Digital Records"
Laurence Westgaph
Postgraduate Research Student
Thesis Title:
"African Liverpool: Black Community in a Slave Trade City."